CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 94, 31 January 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (I>BU UNITK-H> PltlJbS ASSOCIATION.) LOiNDO.v, January 28. Mr Bradlanjfi is unconscious. '"'• His doctors were,, howev r, able to acquaint him with the action of Parliament in ex punning the resolution forbidding him to tuke the oath. . > Truth: says that the Governor of Queensland wishes to retire, but Lord 1 Kmu.«For<l has prevailed upon him tocouUitue in office. General Booth starts in July forlAfrica, India, and Australia. In the House of Commons the Conspiracy Act was rejected by a majority of 36.. Isolated instances of outrage and damage to property continue to occur among the Scotch railway men on strike. The strikers at Perth have resumed work. Speaking at Leedß Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said he would be glad if it was possible to persuade the colonial governments to modify the extreme attitude taken up by them with regard; to the taxation of the British goods imported into Australia. January 29. The prospectus is issued of the United Australian Bank, with a capital of L 2,000,000, in LlO shares. Washington, January 28. The total number of deaths by the colliery explosion in Pennsylvania is 196A Bill has been introduced into the Senate sanctioning the formation of a company with a capital of. £1.000,000, to: work a cable between San Francisco, the. Hawaiian Islands, Samoa and Japan. If is proposed that the Treasury shall subsidise the undertaking to the extent of L 40.000 a year for fifteen years The appeal of Canada against the seizure of fishing vessels in Behring Sea has been referred to Dv Field, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United. States. He states that it being a political question he cannot adjudicate. The suit instituted by the merchants of St. Louis to test the validity of the McKinley Tariff Act has resulted in favor of the Act. An appeal has been lodged. There is a renewed scare about the Indians. There is some excitement in New York at the action of Jay Gould, the well known cap'tulisf", who threatens to with draw from the Stock Exchange owing to a quarrel with the Directors. Jnnunry 29The opposition to the free coinage of silver iv the House of Representatives is increasing. v Paris, January 29. The French Pacific Squadron has been ordered to Chili. *■ The Chamber of Deputies has rejected the treaty with Dahomey, which is equivalent to a declaration of war. Valparaiso, January 29. The rebels have captured Coquimbo and Laserena. The Government troops defeated the rebels at Pisuqua. Berlin, January 28. , Germany is endeavoring to obtain a portion of the territory in the Malay Peninsula. Massowah, January 29. Very severe floods have been experienced here and enormous damage was done to property, hundreds of persons being drowned.